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Candidat au Conseil Communal

Je me suis porté candidat au Conseil Communal de Blonay (élections le 14 mars). Cette information est destiné aux électeurs potentiels.

Weekend en montagne

Last weekend gave some real sun at last. So, rushed off from work to Villeneuve to go paragliding at 16h, but the next navette was full and impatience told me to go to Haut Caux to catch the train for Jaman. Missed that too, but after 90minute walk I was ready to take off from the Merdasson.It was late, 17h50 with a bit of North wind, so I was surprised to be catapulted to 2600m! A quick tour of the Vanil des Artses, Molard and Sonchaux rounded a nice 1h flight, with the usual delicate landing at Haut Caux.

Gnumeric

Just discovered a nice Opensource spreadsheet program: gnumeric.

Seems more lightweight than openoffice, e.g. memory footprint was 20MB. Supports many file formats, Excel 2003 like GUI.

I'll try to use it (Version 1.9.12 on windows XP) to replace Excel..

Issues so far (2009.10.13):

Alpinisme: Couronne de Bréona, Ptes de Mourti, Dt. des Rosses

Enfin la possibilité de faire de l'alpinisme!
J'ai passé deux jours à Moiry, 5/6.août.09 .  Voir aussi les photos.

Rock climbing/escalade at the Piller de la Pissechèvre

Another non-techie post, but I had a great time today and want to write about it before I forget :-)

99% of my climbing has been indoor for a variety of reasons, today I got a day off and was able to hire a mountain guide Yoann.

Books: Ueli Steck, Morrie..

Two non-techie books that popped up in March and can be recommended: